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Construction Manager at Dragados USA

Posted in Other 30+ days ago.

Location: Detroit, Michigan





Job Description:

Principal/Essential Duties & Responsibilities



  • Coordinate with professional staff responsible for project construction.

  • Manage all field operations and work sequence in conjunction with the Project Manager

  • Direct and coordinate activities of project personnel to ensure project progresses on schedule and within prescribed budget

  • Assist subordinate supervisors in maintaining production on budget and schedule

  • Review project estimate or plan to determine schedule, estimated job cost, procedures for accomplishing project, staffing requirements, and allotment of available resources to various phases of project

  • Understand project documents ie: completeness or inadequacies.

  • Anticipate project needs with sufficient lead-time to avoid delay of production

  • Establishes work plan and staffing for each phase of project, work closely with Human Resources in recruitment efforts as necessary

  • Oversees coordination with project staff to outline work plans, assign duties, responsibilities, and scope of authority

  • Review status and modify schedules or plans as required and prepares project reports for management, owners, and subcontractors

  • Follow-up on directives to be continuously on the alert for situations that are not progressing productively and for opportunities to improve project performance

  • Confer with project personnel to provide technical advice and to resolve problems

  • Work closely with Company employees, project supervisors, owners, external teams and support people to get commitments regarding PM's managerial and supervisory requests

  • Provide positive safety leadership to the project

  • Review field operation and ensure that the project provides a safe workplace

  • Coordinate the preparation and updating of the formal project construction schedule as required by the contract documents

  • Coordinate resource use with project superintendent; for example, craft assignment, crew sizes and project layout for offices, traffic flow, and material storage

  • Responsible for claims documentation

  • Coordinate material purchases, assure that subcontractor agreements are prepared and change orders are

  • accurate and issued to owners, subcontractors and suppliers

  • Develop, maintain business relationships and manage subcontractor, client/owner, engineers, JV partner(s) and unions if applicable

  • Maintain relationships with contracting and regulatory agencies & executive management

  • Participate in project presentations to elected officials, general public and other stake holders

  • Responsible for project closeout. Secure loose ends by finishing paperwork, obtaining retainages, supporting supervisors and expediting claims

  • Debriefing of project to review all positive and negative aspects after completion

  • Able to confidently negotiate any & all matters on behalf of the Company as they relate to cost, schedule & contract matters with Owner/Sub suppliers


Qualifications



  • Bachelor's Degree in a related field from an accredited four-year college or university, Civil Engineering or Construction Management preferred

  • Five (5) to ten (10) years of related experience; construction and management experienced required

  • At least 2-4 Roadway projects with the DOT. High traffic arterial projects will be value



Preferred



  • Professional Engineer License valued

  • Federal, state and local knowledge and experience



Knowledge, Skills and Abilities, Competencies



  • Knowledge and experience with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

  • Knowledge with Primavera P6 Scheduling Software is a plus

  • Knowledge of the DOT Standard Specifications

  • Communication - excellent oral presentation and written skills

  • Goal oriented - able to set goals and achieve them

  • Interpersonal - able to work well and persuade people at all organization levels

  • Organizational ability - able to plan, prioritize, organize and monitor activities and projects. Able to work well in a group environment and foster a team approach





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